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Jule Selbo This summer has gone by quickly and I feel like I wasn’t in the physical or mental shape to keep up with it, so I’m still panting and whining to reach the “ENJOY LIFE” and “DON’T STRESS THE … Continue reading →

July Blog 2025 Jule Selbo I’ve been beating myself over the head lately because I’m so distracted with what’s going on in the world. Yeah, hard to ignore.  Those chapters that I would “normally” write, rewrite and rewrite again and … Continue reading →

JULE SELBO Summer’s almost here and my office is getting hot. The sun starts pouring in an hour after sunrise  – @ 5 am –  and it is aggressive. The big blob sends biting, shiny light right across my desk, … Continue reading →

Jule Selbo 7 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery, was released a month ago. So far I have had a wonderful time doing events at Groveland Library in Massachusetts (what a reading community, headed by librarian Sue Nakanishi – she has … Continue reading →

Jule Selbo/ April 2025 Deep into mid-book angst on 6 Days, A Dee Rommel Mystery, I start hoping for those story-fixer dreams that – for me – often happen in that last wave of sleep before getting up in the … Continue reading →

Jule Selbo, March 2025 “Stowaway is a minor charge. This is similar to jumping the turnstile…”  As far as I can tell, this is what happened, and when…  TUESDAY NOV 26, 2024  Svetlana Dali, age 57, wearing a pink knit … Continue reading →

Writers never have to be “alone”. During the final week of August, I was in Nashville Tennessee for the yearly Bouchercon Mystery Writers Conference.  Quite the line-up of excellent authors, including Brad Thor (Shadow of a Doubt, Dead Fall, Spymaster, … Continue reading →

Jule Selbo Don’t worry about making the PLOT tick every every every minute. Allow the characters to breathe, think, have opinions. Character is plot. Plot is character. It’s sometimes hard to hold onto that mantra (that I believe in) in … Continue reading →